Prof. Emily M. Bender starts a thread with a good zing - eviltoast

With the OpenAI clownshow, there’s been renewed media attention on the xrisk/“AI safety”/doomer nonsense. Personally, I’ve had a fresh wave of reporters asking me naive questions (as well as some contacts from old hands who are on top of how to handle ultra-rich man-children with god complexes).

    • self@awful.systems
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      1 year ago

      oh my poor half-asleep brain making me shitheadedly assume a woman can’t possibly have done pioneering work in a field she specializes in

      • froztbyte@awful.systems
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        1 year ago

        Opening with “her entire rant” was already telling, and then a pageful of idiocy based on 4 points (at least two of which are so Not Even Wrong I didn’t even have words)